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...flogged by " whipping-bosses " has revealed incidents fully as brutal and gruesome as any of the tortures employed during the Middle Ages. The press is unanimous in its agreement that it is one of the darkest blots on civilization in America. This system, whereby convicts are delivered under contract to turpentine camps at $20 a head profit to the sheriff sending them there, whereby flogging of prisoners to death is a common occurrence, has been speedily condemned by the Florida legislature, which voted 31 to 1 to abolish convict labor contracts with private concerns...
...Pitney occasionally, joined the liberal group. The appointment of Chief Justice Taft in place of Chief Justice White tended to liberalize the court, for, while he has upheld the injunction in labor disputes, he has also upheld emergency rent laws, which his predecessor considered an infringement on liberty of contract. But the retirement of Justices Day, Pitney and Clarke deprived the court of one announced liberal, and two associates who often joined him in bringing about a liberal decision. Of their successors, Justices Sutherland and Butler appear to be almost reactionary, and there is no indication that Justice Sanford holds...
Venezuela. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey notified the British Controlled Oil Fields Company, Limited, that they are prepared to carry out their contract with them for the development of the eastern division of the Buchivacoa oil fields in Venezuela...
...This contract calls for the formation of a new company with a capital of $5,000,000. It is stated that the British company will get a royalty in cash or oil amounting to one-twelfth of the total oil produced. The Standard Oil will have the sole drilling rights on the acreage...
...statute passed by Congress, would not be considered binding in the event that a state law came before the Court. The power of Congress is limited by the Fifth Amendment and that of the states by the Fourteenth, but they are substantially identical in providing for the liberty of contract, and there is little reason to anticipate that any state law will receive more favorable consideration...